Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 7, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 109 - The Bulletin’s Circulation “In Norwich is Double That of Any PROTEST AGAINST Railroad Manager Makes Men Would Tend to FULL CREW BILL Contention That vMore Breed Carelessness TRAINS !N THIS STATE ARE NOT UNDERMANNED Stonington Wreck Was Due t Declares General Manager periences in Handling Frei Larger Crews Would Not o Negligence of an Employe, Bardo—Tells of His Own Ex- ight Trains With One Man— Decrease the Accidents. 6. position to the 1 had t afternoon with ommittee on railroa- and it was interesting by frequent lively entirely good natured tilts C. Terry, representing in the railroad men, and C. L. Bardo of the tem, who was the chief the bill under considera- Accused of “Child's Play.” i on of Mr. Bardo was | Terry in his cross examina- | ting up suppositious cases | mg answers to qu he sugh ral Manay Haven expeci 2 of conditions which might exist t cases. Mr. Bardo told Mr. | rerry to get down to “brass tacl i quote real cases, real situations | {ich had developed in which an extra n on a train would have been an wdditional safeguard to the train and | sould have lessened the hazard to the | on the train. ~ Mr. Terry at one was plying questions in rapid f order when Mr. Bardo said that this was all child’s play, and he ob- | ted to wasting lot of time in | neap questioning.” | Bardo Answers Advocates of Bill. The railroads rested their case on the opinion of operating railroad offi- 1a's who were pronounced against the before the committee. Mr. Bardo u statement of some _lensth, read which he had prepared which not onl gave his reasons for opposing the biil | ave an answer to many of the ised by the propoments last k. Mr. Bardo had first given a ri sketch of his raiiroad experience which showed that he had seen long and very important services with sev- eral roads, filling positions of respon- bility, and coming to the New Haven stem last February. Trains Not Undermanned. The statement he read set forth that but be had had considerable to do with full crew legisiation in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey and he had studied the results very carefully. He aid not favor the bill before -the nmittee as the trains as run in this state are not undermanned; that there is no reason to increase the number of men on a train arbitrarily except to find places for additional men, that such legislation would have its effect discipline in making the railroad men bigser than their superior offi- cers, that the additional man asked for on a train would not enhance the safety of a train. As against the bill furth man r he said that the addition of a in this arbitrary way would divided responsibility and in- e railroad getting two men's attention it would get half service of o men which would be a bad condi- n More Men Would Breed Carelessness. He believed further that increasing s number of men would make for essness on the part of train crew, and the hazards would be increased through an important duty not being done because one man would think it was being done by another, the ele- of personal responsibility being sened. On th fAnancial side Mr. Bardo said ved the cost of the extra man which wot amount to $300,000 a yvear d be better expended in the pub- c behalf by improving material con- s which now exist. Stonington Wreck Due to Negligence. Mr. Bardo replied to Coroner Phelan by saying that the reports of the In- terstate Commerce * Commission and | he public utilities commission do not point out or say that the express when wrecked Was undermannmed. On the contrary they found that the wreck was due to causes which coyld not have been prevented by having had an additional trainman on the crew. In the Stomington wreck also to which Mr. Terry referreq last week, Mr. ‘Bardo pointed out that this was caused directly by the negligence of a mem- ‘ber of the crew and it was not due to the lack of an additional man as de- manded by the bill. Would Increase Accidents to Employes Mr. Bardo further said that the in- llation of mew signals between New Haven and Springflely was due to the megligence of a member of the organ- ization which s advocating the bill and such installation is not due to | any lack of the additional man on any train. Mr. Bardo said he found that | 1 conditions had not improved in rail- roading in Pennsylvamia since the full crew bill had been in force. He vol unteered the opinion that an increase in the number of men in a train crew increased | the number of accidents to employes. This led Mr. Terry to_in- quire if upon this hypothesis Mr. Ba do beileved that the less number of men employed the less number who d be killed and injured and Mr. Bardo said he did. - Could Handle Freight with One Man. This led Mr. Bardo to give some < | his own experiences in handiing freight | trains with one man and he said he was certain that he could go out on the roaq and handle a freight train, | setting off, braking a train and pick- ing up with ome man, with just as much safetv to all concerned as with a crew under the Ddill. He said that crews were made up in accordance with the work involved and not as Mr. Terry thought was the case, with as few men as possible. Mr. Terry spent a considerable time in questioning in order to bring out the conditions under which a train ecrew would work under various con- dftions. but Mr. Bardo who was quick in replying frequently told Mr. Terry that he would easwer all guestions askeg If they reiated to actual cases but he was not goiug to give answers to supposed cases. Most Accidents Due to Negligence. Mr. Bardo 12i@ in a lot of figures from various reports’ of railroads to fllustrate what he terméd human falli- bility in the work and to show thar a great perventage of the accidents to lite ang lim) were e 1o negligence ced Mr. Bardo some questions, but on the whole the general manager looked after his Own end in the cross examination which Mr. Terry conduct- ed. C. V. Officials Argue Against Bili. At one time Senator Peck of the committee thougkt some of the ques- tions were irrelevant and reiteration and Mr. Wilson voiced his protest that iroad aitorney had opportunity examine lasi week and it was taa: (12 pioponents should rdo. er witnesses were John M- to cro: only fair question The ot Craw, superiniendent of the Ceniral Vermont and 8. C. McKinney, tro. master of tbat road. W. J. Brennan, \ppeared ‘as coinsel for the road and Lis chjaztion was that while the bili would affect the corapany to a minor degree only, noihiing had been shown to convince the committee that thers are too fey bralwinen on a train and that the additional man Would meun more or less Gemoralization of disci- | pline. A FRANCHISE TAX. Bill to Make Corporations Make Up the State’s Deficit. Hartford, Conn., May 6.—Former State Senator Donald T. Warner of Salisbury offered to the finance com- mittee today a bill which would im- pose a franchise tax of ome-eighth of one per cent. on the capital stock of all corporations doing business in the | state, except those which now pay a direct tax. Mr. Warner, in pleading for his bill, said that Comnecticut 18 facing a big deficit. He estimated it at $5,000,000 for the last two years. He said, in his opinion, the state has the same right 1o tax or license corporations as cities ang boroughs do to license pea- nut vendors. A number of persons appeared in support of the proposed bill, among them being Judge John J. Walsh of Norwalk, Representative Wilson of Bridgeport, E. H, Healey of Wood- stock, former head of the Connectigut erange, ahd Professor Charles Barnes of Wallingford. Persons representing the corpora- tions pleaded delay, saving they want- ed to read ang_consider the measure. Representative Rice of West Hartford spoke against the bill, as well as sev~ eral attorneys for corporations, Sen- ator Wood of the finance committee 524 the matter woulq have to be act- ed upon soon as the time was already 00 short. He gave the parties until next Friday to file briefs. Speakers for the bill estimated that the income of the proposed tax would be about $300,000 vearly. SUICIDE CAUSE OF A GAS EXPLOSION. Dozen Occupants of Building in Hos- pital—Policeman Fatally Injured. New York, May 6.—Samuel Gordon, a despondent Bast Side papercutter, released such a quantity of gas when he turned on a jet in committing sui- cide that the fumes filled the tenement building where he lived and an_explo- sion followed in which more than a score of persons were injured, two of them probably mortally. The explo- sion and fire which followed caused a panic in the neighborhood, a crowded section on Madison" street. The blaze did little damage. Besides a dozen persons taken to hospitals suffering from burns and cuts from flying glass, a dozen others were less seriously injured. William J. Cummins, a policeman, is one of {hose who sustained probable mortal urts. YOUNG WOMAN DIED FROM DRUG'S EFFECTS. Body Found in Creek Identified as Former Telephone Girl. Detroit, Mich, May 6.—The you woman whose body was found in creek, Gresse Pointe, Monday night, was identified tonight as Miss Belle Barry, who for the last week had been employed in the home of Charles R. Wardwell, this city. Previously she had worked as a telephone operator in Detroit and as a silk mill worker in her home town of Belding, Mich. ounty authorities who today con- ducted a post mortem examination of the body advanced the theory that she died from the effects of a drug taken o prevent an undesirable condition of health. 3 CHILDREN LIVED ON BREAD AND WATER. | Families of Strikers at Paterson, N J, in a Pitiable Plight. New York, May 6.—Bread and water are declared to have been the sole food | for three days of some of the children of the striking silk mill workers of Paterson, N. J. Their plight was re- lated by the little ones themselves to- day to New York families who adopted them pending the labor controversy. In automobile trucks 77 boys and girls reached the city from Paterson late to- day and at Labor temple were dis- tributed_among persons who promised to care for them. No “Milk Strike” this Year. Plainfleld, Conn., May 6—There will be no “milk_strike” in this section of Connecticut "this spring as the annual contracts between milk producers of Providence and the farmers ef eastern Connecticut are about to be made. A compromise price of 45 cents for ten quarts .is confidently expected. Willimantic Man Suspended. New York, May G.—The board of review of the National Trotting asso- ciation ordered the suspenmsion of T. R. Sadd of Willimantic, Conn. until be returns the winnings of his chest- nut gelding Billiken, amounting to of the employes themseives. He main- tained that this fallisility shown by he reporis would net he lessened in any way_by incriasing the number ©f_mén cn a_tratw 31,285, the horse not having been iden- tified to the board’s satisfaction. Demanding $2.50 Per Day instead of $2.25, about 100 coal teamsters struck at Lawrence, Mass., yesterday. . Cabied Paragraphs American Wins Gladstone Prize. Oxtord, England, May 6—W. P. Shepardson, a Rhodes scholar from Colgate university, Hamilton, N. Y.. and a student of Balliol college, Oxford university, won the Gladstone history prize today. King’s Assassin Suicides. Athens, Greece, May 6.—Aleko Schi- nas, who assassinated King George of Greece on March 18 at Saloniki, com- mitted suicide this morning by fling- ing himself out of a window of the Dpolice station in that city. Prisoners Sent to Azores. Lisbon, Portugal, May 8.—The Por- tuguese government has despatched all the political prisoners arrested for complicity in the last attempt to over- throwthe present republic on Sunday, April 27, to the Azores for trial and’| punishment, Increased Activity on Canal. Panama, May 6.—Increased activity has been shown in the Cucaracha slide of the Panama canal south of Gold Hill_during the past few days. The cut at that point is nearly closed, only one available track being left at the 70 foot west level across the canal. Judgment Against Italy. The Hague, Netherlands, May 6.— The Franco-Italian court of arbitra- tion dealing with the seizure by Italian warships during the Franco-Italian war of the French steamers Carthage and Manouba. decided today that Italy was in the wrong and condemned the Italian government to pay $32,000 and $800°in the respective cases. ERECT IDENTICAL % PEACE MONUMENTS. Proposal to Have One Here and One in Great Britain. New York, May 6—Before taking up discussion of the plans for celebrat- ing one hundred years of peace among English-speaking nations, the Inter- national conference in session here to arrange the programme, tentatively decided to adopt a statement of pur- poses that will make for a per; tion of this peace. The celebration, it ws stated, was of secondary import- ance to the consideration of future peace between the two nations as an object lesson to other countries now at war or preparing to engage in force of arms to settle differences. In this connection it was announced to- night that at the banquet in honor of the visiting delegates on Friday night, Secretary of State Bryan would be present and is expected to make an im- portant announcement. A celebration feature considered was the erection of peace monuments by Great Britain and the United States possibly of identical design, the cost fo be defrayed either from. public funds, or from private subscription. The monument plan as a basis, other sug- gestions were that the cornerstones be laid on a chosen day by the king of England, the president of the United States and by their representatives “beyond the seas” that other nations and all foreign governments being in- vited to send delegates to attend these ceremonies; that on the day the cornerstones are laid there be a cessa- tion of work for five minutes through- out the two countries and their colonies and that the occasion be ob- served by special exercises in the schools. It was further suggested that a fitting way to promote the growth of mutual respect and good will between Great Britain and the United States and their colonies would be through the endowment in the colleges and uni- versities o fchairs of WBritish-Ameri- can history wit hspecial reference to the peaceful progress and relations of the two countries. This plan, it was suggested, could be based upon the principle of interchanging professors. It was urged that under the same head should be considered the endowment of traveling scholarships to _enable Journalists and writers to visit English speaking countries, and the awarding of prizes for essays by school students on subjects of peace and the abolition of war among civilized peoples. The schools, the delegates agreed, should be urged to include courses of history covering the period of 100 years of peace and that peace day celebrations should be held every year in the schools. OLD GLORY ABOVE SOCIALIST BANNER Thousands Cheer Action of Two Patri. ots At East Liverpool. East Liverpool, Ohio. May 6—Cheer- ed by thousands and later meeting a unique situation ,two men last night placed the American flag above the red flag of socialism on a high build- ing in which the socialists have their headquarters. Several days ago the socialists flung their flag to the breeze and the city authorities foung that there was no law to haul it down. Protests from the G. A. R. and Sons of Veterans caused a lively controver— sv. Last night two men, one a law stu- dent and the other the owner of the building ascended to the roof of the structure through a trap door, inci- dentally passing the headquarters of the socialists. The American flag was nailed to the roof just above the red banner. A large crowd had col- lected. When the men attempted to leave the roof they found the trap door locked. From the edge of the building’s Toof the men notified the crowd below of their predicament. Within a moment an alarm of firc was sounded. The ladders of the depart- | ment were used and the two men de- scended to ihe street. Steamers Reported by Wireless. | . Sable Island, May 6.—Steamer Ma- jestic, Southampton for New York, Signailed $11 miles east of Sandy Hook at § a. m. Dock 8 a m. Thurs- ay. Steamer Patricia, Hamburg for New York, signalled 730 miles east of San- dy Hook at noon. Dock 8 a. m. Fri- ay. Slasconset, Mass, May 6.—Steamer Noordam, Rotterdam for New York, signalled 193 miles east of Sandy Hook 3;,5'10.30 a. m. Dock 8 a. m. Wednes- Steamship Arrivals. London, May 5.—Arrived, Minnetonka, New York. Rotterdam, May 5.—Arrived, steamer Hanover, Portland for Hambure. Gibraltar, May 6.—Arrived, steamer €anopic, Boston for Naples, steamer Genoa, May 2. Arriv Amerika, New [Fam e remen, May 5. rrive Kaiser Wilhelm 11, New otk e New York, May 6.—Arrived: Steam- e!‘AN?Bl‘ dm,)l[RnH;l‘flan B niwerp, @y 6.—Arrived: Stea TFinland, New Yorlk. Stenmp Copenhagen, May 6. — Arrived: Steamer Flellig Olav, New o¥rk. New Yogk, May 6.--Arrived Steamer Ivernia, Livérpoo Quebec, May 6.—Arrived: Steamer Grampian, Glasgow -oipps fo Flee the Stat‘e FORMER POLICE INSPECTORS FOUND GUILTY. OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE Induced Important Witness in Palice Graft Investigation to Get Out of Reach—Will Be Sentenced Friday. New York, May 6.—James F. Thompson, James K. Hussey, John J Murtha and Dennis Sweeney, the four demoted police inspectors charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, were convicted by a jury in the supreme court ehortly after § o'clock tonight, Only 38 minutes was taken by the Jjurors in which to reach their verdict that the defendants were guilty of a misdemeanor in plotting to keep a| prospective witness against the “sys- | tem” from making great disclosures before the grand jury. To Hear Sentences Friday.. The accused officials stood outwardly unmoved as they heard the verdict The crowd in the courtroom, however, created a disturbance, shuffling chairs and feet until attendants checked the disorder. The prisoners gave their pedigrees and after being. remanded for sentence Friday they were retun- ed to their cells. Their counsel an- nounced that a certificate of reasona- ble doubt will be sought. If it is granted the prisoners will be admit- ted to bail pending efforts to secure a new trial. The penalty for obstruction of jus- tice is ome year in jail or a fine of $500, -or both. It is Teported that the jury required only one ballot to reach its decision. Convictions Considered Important. An attorney for the defense declared the verdict was “a shock” and the briefness of the jury's deliberations “a surprise” Another of the prisoners’ lawyers said no other verdict was ex- pected. “The atmosphere of the city of New York js surcharged at the present time with a determination to convict,” he said. The conviction of Thompson, Hus- sey, Murtha and Sweeney is regarded by Mr. Whitman as the most impor- tant yet secured in connection-with his expose of the police. “system” that was shown to link law enforcers with the city’s underworld when Becker, the police lieutenant, hired the four gun- men to murder Herman Rosenthai, tne gambler, last summer. Plotted to Buy Silence. The men were on trial seven court days. District Attorney Whitman and his assistants brought evidence to show that the four plotted to buy the silence of George A. Sipp, a resort keeper, through bribing him to flec thu-{ state last December. At that time the prosecutor was attacking the police “system”. through, graft disclosures made by Sipp and other witnesses be- fore the aldermanio committee that was investigating the police depart- ment. For a number of years Sipp pald monthly payments to the police for protection for his resort, he had toid the committee. Before Mr. Whitman had a chance to get Sipp to repeat this testimony before the grand jury the hotel man took" flight. - Given $2,000 to Leavs State. Upon being returned to the courts jurisdiction it developed that he had been bribed with $2,000 to leave. Sipp o stated, and the prosecutor’s inquiry into his story resulted in the joint in- dictment of the defendants, then in- spectors. uring the course of the trial the state introduced evidence tending to show. that graft payments by Sipp Teached the defendants, who in turn commanded the Harlem district where Sipp's hotel was located. $42,000 a Year in One Precinct. The tribute was collected for Thomp- son by Thomas J. Walsh, who was captaln of a Harlem precinct, and Walsh divided with the inspector abgve him, according to Wash’s own confes- sion. The amount of graft exacted was in dispute during the trial, but Mr. Whitman in summing up this af- ternoon stated it was $42,000 a year in Walsh’s precinct alome. Walsh and Sipp were the state's chief witnesses. A Bribe for Policeman Fox. The prosecution contended further in the trial that besides the Sipp fund a ribe sum of $15,000 was planned by the defendants to furnish bail for Fu- gene Fox, a policeman, and to provide for his family if he went to jail with- out “squealing.” Fox awaits sentence for bribery as Walsh's graft collector, his confession terminating the neces- sity of a fund by the “system” to in- sure his silence. trial was occupied by the completion of summing up for the defense, Mr. Whitman's argument for the state and the court's charge to the jury. The prosecutor emphasized what he de- clored was the weakness of-the case of the defense—alibis, character testi- mony and efforts to discredit some of the prosecution’s witnesses on the sround that they were graft givers and graft takers. Thef case went to the jury in the early evening. GOVERNOR BALDWIN ON ANTI-ALIEN LAND LAW. | Treaty by Nation Takes Precedence to State Legislation. New Haven, Conn, May 6.—Gover- nor Simeon 1, Baldwin tonight gave an interview as to his views on_the alien land bill as passed by the Cali- fornia legislature, in which he said that a treaty made by the country takes precedence over any legislation taken by a state. He cited a_ similar case in Maryland about a hundred vears ago. A 650-MILE ROAD PLANNED. Line from Tucumcari, N. M., to Port Arkansas, Texas. Midland, Texas, May 6.—The Empirc construction Company of Omaha, Neb., is promoting the construction of a railroad between Tucumcari, N. M., and Port Aransas on the Gulf coast of Texas, about 650 miles and the work will soon be started. The proposed road will cross the Texas & Pacific at this place. The division to be first constructed is between Tucumcari and Midland, about 250 miles. This part of the line will {raverse a territory in eastern New Mexico and the middle and Jower panhandle of Texas. It will &plit the shallow water belt of the two States in two and engble the development of many millions“of acres of ranch land. When extended to Port Arkansas It will give ~a large score of country in Colorado and New The final day of the | were arrested last evening while Largest in Gonnecticat in Praportion to the Gity's Population 5 $90,000 Edifice Now in Ruins! SUFFRAGETTES BLAMED FOR BURNING OF CH U\F(GH. WOMEN IN BUILDING Vicar Saw Them, But Supposed They Were Fhere- for Lawful Purpose— Another Attempt to Explode Bomb. : London, May 6.—While the members of the house of commons were enter- ing parliament this afternoon to dis- cuss the woman's suffrage bill, news- boys _thrust “extras” at them an- nouncing what seems to be the most destructive work the militant suftra- gettes have vet accomplished. St. Catharine’s church at Hatcham, in the southeast of London, one of the finest church edifices in the suburbs, caught fire soon after noon in a mys- terious way and burned so quickly that an hour later only the charred walls and a few of the pews remained, al- | though the fire brigade worked havd. | The fire was watched by thousands of | spectators. Edifice Cost $90,000. The interior of the church was like a seething furnace a few moments af- ter the flames were discovered. The roof fell in half an hour afterwards and the tumbling masonry seriously injured a fireman. The church was built in 1893 at a cost of $90.000. An expensive chancel iAnd stained glass windows were added ater. Vicar Blames “Those Delightful dies.” The heating apparatus in the build- ing had not been used for two weeks, and although the church was usually kept open all day for prayer, all the doors were found to be bolted when the fire was discovered. The vicar, the Rev. Howard J. ‘Truscott, when asked about the cause of the fire, eaid: “I cannot ascrib® it to any other than those delightful ladies.” Three Women Seen in Building. The vicar visited the church at noon, when he noticed three women in the building. He supposed them to be praying. - He now believes that they arranged the fire and thinks explosives must have been used because of the rapidity with which the flames spread. The vicar managed to save the rec- ords of marriages and baptisms. Attempt to Explode Bomb. A mysterious attempt to explode a bomb was made early this morning outside the Grand hotel, opposite Tra- falgar squgre, whers tho suffrage dis- turbances took place on Sunday. The hotel was crowded with American tourists. A policeman saw a woman deposit a can With a lighted fuse in front of the door. He abandoned the bomb after extinguishing it by tramp- ling on the fuse, and then pursued the woman. Woman Denied Planting Bomb. He caught one woman whom he supposed to be the culprit and who, Wwhen brought up in eourt, gave her name as Ada Ward. Investigation proved her to be & prowler who had often been in the police court. She denied planting the bomb, which dis appeared while the policeman was chasing her. SUFFRAGE BILL BEATEN. La- Rejected in the House of Commons by Majority of 47. May 6—The fate of the woman's suffrage bill was sealed to- night by the votes of more than 50 Irish nationalists who voted against 1t. The bill, whereby it was sought to en- franchise six million women, was re jected by a majority of 47. The vote Stood 266 to_219. Whether there is any chance that the present parliament will pass a bill of more limited character may be doubted. Possibly the nationalists fear that if they allow a woman's fran- chise bill to pass the second reading it would lead to a parliamentary strug- gle which would not unlikely end in dissolution of parliament before the home rule bill gets on the statute book. Furthérmore, the debate today proved that the militant policy of the suffragists has done the cause great harm, as far as parliaemnt is con- cerned. £ Recent police court disclosures of acts of incendiarism planned by the militants and the burning of St. Cath- erine’s church at Hatcham today un- doubtedly influenced many members to vote against the bill. Refuse to Pay $5 Fines. Miss Nina Boyle and Miss Munro, ~ militant suffragettes London, Anna who tempting to hold a meeting in H Park, when brought up at the police court today and charged, chose 14 days’ imprisonment in preference to the nayment of a fine of 35*each. “Of course we will not pay,” they told the magistrate Black Damp Kills Five. Hartford, Kentucky, May 6.—Five men were killed by black damp today in a deserted shaft of a coal mine be- longing to the Taylor Mining compan: The men were working near the shaft when C. F. Frazier, one of the num- Der, went to_explore the abandoned digging. He fell into water and, with the four others, who went to his res- cue, succumbed to the gas. Geraghtys Buy a Home. ‘Woburn, May 6.—Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geraghty, formerly of Newport, but now living in Brookline, have ' pur- chased the Anson Tufts property on Cambridge street for occupancy. The old Tufts house is to be remodeleq at once. The location is in the center of ‘Woburn's most plcturesque section. Lightning Strikes at Wilton. Wilton, Conn., ‘May_6.—Lightning struck the house of ~Ernest Schenk during a thunder storm here tonight, but did not do any great damage. Sev- eral trees were struck and telephone service put out of commission for a couple of honrs. Broke Ankle Sliding to Base. Suffield, Conn., May 6.—William Mo- ran of Southington, a member of the Connecticut Literary institute —base- ball team, broke his left ankle while sliding to second base in a game here today. He is the third player on the team to receive a similar injury this season. British Steamer Sprang a Leak. Barrow, England, May 6.—The British steamer Appalachee, New Or- leans and Norfolk for this port, ar- rived here today in a leaky condition after having been in collision with Condensed Teiegrams The Hot Speil is about to be broken by a cold one. The Police Are Expelling vagahonds from Portugai. Senator James A. OQ'Gorman cele- brated his 53d birthday Mondas Great Precautions Are Being Taken to prote¢t King Alfonso from outrages by anarchists during his visit to Paris. President Wilson yesterday nominat- ed Albert Lee Thurman of Ohio to be solicitor .for the department of com- merce. Ethel P. Westwood of New York is suing her husband for $1,264, which she alleges she advanced for his board from 1903 to 1911, The House of Lords, sitting as a court of appeal, ruled that all divercs hearings are to be held in the public court in the future. Fire Which Broke Out in the Vie- toria rink at Moncton, N. B., yesterday destroyed that building, a church, a public hall and five residences. Adorce Villany, thé young womin who danced in a Paris music hall in scant costume, was fined $40 for & “public cutrage on modesty,” Ten Verses of the Bible will be read each day in the public schools of Pennsylvania, if. a house bill passed by the senate is approved by the gov- ernor. The Move to Change the Name of the Protestant Episcopal church was yesterday voted down at the 129th an- nual convention of the Pennsylvania diocese. The United States Submarine torpe- do boat H.1 was launched at San ¥ran- cisco yesterda; Miss Leslie Jean Meakin of Montreal, Canada, christen- ed the boat. An Investigation of Wages and con- ditions in the pottery industry was started vesterday by the department of | commerce because of threatened re- ductions in wages. One Building Was Burned to the ground at New Britain, the store sheds of M. D. Stanley, Inc, grain dealers, were destroyed and also another house was damaged by fire vesterday. b, Henry Freunisch, 18, and Mathew Weiler, 19, are under arrest for the theft of copper amounting to about $200 from the G. Durouve company cornice works of Bridgeport. A Conference of Railway vice presi- dents and general managers has decid- | ed to invoke the referendum in an ef-| fort to set aside the “full crew” law | passed by the Missourl legislature, | Washington, May 6.—As the sion closead today, Representativ. a Connecticut democrat, criticized the | ways and means committee for fram- ing certain sections of the bill “unin- telligentl “The cotton schedule was brutally | tréated,” he declared. ter from protesting against the raising of the duty Looks Like “’This is from the heaq of the com- pany, to President Wilson's campaign fund,” he said, “and a man who is to be sent as our of Russi looks like a to put the of busines: _ The overwhelming democrat Jority bowled free_meats ang other passed o dred million dollar income tax feature of the Underwood tariff bill. { dent was made in the bill as approved the ways major | began ure as a whole would be passed un- amended by the house by tomorrow. Amendment for Tariff Commission. Al | the aisle aividing the democrats and | the republican | were offered by republicans in a for- | lorn effort to put man: ticles back on_the dut were, | that brought smiles from the minority. | | | posed changes had been rejected, Rep- resentative Payne of New York, head | of the ways and means committee, un- ¥ Gdexr A Large Increase over provious years | GOTTON SCHEDULE BRUTALLY Connecticut Congressman Makes a Bold : Tariff Programme of His Party Manganese Looks Like a Scheme of the Steel Ti Opposition to Ways and Are Promptly Bowled Over by Big Democratic Mlnl’l’t;‘ cus- in the house Donovan, of the free list He read a let- the Crane Steel company, on ferro-manganese.| Steel Trust Schems. one of the largest contributors rej 4. sentative the court fe says the increased duty :heme of the steel trust independent producers out | to All Opposition Bowled Over. ma- swept through the free Iist, over ail opposition to free wool, necessities and | to consideration of the hun- | Not a and means committee and when the night session was expected that the meas- day there was sparring across | Many amendments | free listed ar- Dle list, but all ith a regularit voted down when the last of these pro: the republican regime in the Means Committee house, precipitated a lively rules fight by offering a brand new amendment €0 create a tariff commission. Parliamentary Sharps Get Busy. Imstantly all the parliamentary sharps on both sides were astir. Speaker Clark sat next to democratic leader Underwood at the front of the Speaker's rostrum where Mr. Under- wood has been conducting considera- tion of the bill. Representative Fitz- gerald of New York rushed in from the appropriations committee, armed ' with precedents and was followed by Representatives Sherley of Kentucky, and Hardwick of Georgia, who joined in the majority protest against admit- ting the amendment. On the republf- can side, Leader Mann, Representative Gardner’ of Massachusetts, Represen- tative Payne of New York and others conferred and addvessed the house, Underwood Raises Point of Order. Tt was all over quickly, Represem= tative Garrett of Tennessee, in chair, sistaining a point of order by Mr. Underwood that the tariff com mission amendment was not germane to_the bill. ¢ When Reépresentative’'Mann appeals ed from the decision, the house Suse tained the chair, 164 to 87. P Fight on Income Tax. £ Representative Hull of ‘Pennesses, chief draftsman of the income . tax | feature of the tariff bill, prepared to- | night to resist a campaign by the minority to amend the details of the mroposed law. e expected a hard fight on behaif of the mutual fire in- surance companies, which would be taxed one per cemt. under the meas- ure. The provisions affecting Insur- ance companies were taken almost verbatim from the corporation tax law already in effect, but to avoid any. le question, committee amendments vere prepared tonight to eligpinate. even the slightest varlation froma.the existing law. A in the transatlantic passenger business | at Portland, Me., was shown vesterday Dby reports fror the six months’ season which closed the first of this month. The Theft of 143 $100 Bills, $14,300, fram an express package sent from Washington, D. C., to the Central Na- tional bank of Oakland, Cal, is engag- ing the efforts of a number of special agents. Japanese Residents of Phoenix, Ariz., at a mass meeting decided to call to- | gether all the Japanese in that state for g meeting on May 18 to protest against anti-allen land holding legisla- Construction of a New $3,500,000 state capitol for Missouri began at Jefferson City, Mo., vesterday with a formal ceremony, in which Governor Major, dozen of other state officials and citizens took part. istol Toting” Became a Felony in Ohio yesterd: when Governor Cox approved a bill to that end. The bill exempts police officers, employes of express companies and others who | guard large sums of money. | Julius Welis of Swanton, Vi, was placed on trial at St. Albans yester- day, charged with the murder by poi- sonof two of his children, Louis, aged 6, and Marie, 4 years old. Mrs. Wells will be tried on a similar charge. In a Proclamation yesterday Gov- ernor Blease of South Carolina offered | a reward of $500 for the body of Rich- Exhaustion and Not Starvation was Harold Bracken, 19 years old, was taken to the Chicago ~workhouse to serve out a fine of $200 which his wealthy father refused to pay. The vounger Bracken ran over a pedes- trian with his automobile on Sunday night. Judge Marcus H. Holcomb of the su- perior court at Hartford filed a de- ciston yesterday granting a decree of divorce to the Rev. Cranston Brenton, professor of English literature at Trin- ity college, from Mrs. Elizabeth A. Curtis Brenton, on statutory grounds. John Diamend, a Produce Dealer of Attleboro Falls, was killed, and his brother, William Diamond, wds injured in a head-on collision between their automobile and a car owned by Wil- liam Earle of Providence, at Attleboro, Mass., yesterday. Lumber Teamsters in Lynn, . about 50, quit work vesterday in sympathy with the 150 mill men who struck at the lumber finishing plants of Frank H. Haskell & Co. and the ‘Brett Lumber company a few days ago. Iverware, Choice Wines and cost- 1y cizars stolen from half the big ho- tels in New York were found yester- day In a house on West 29th street by detectives trying to trace upwards of $100,000 worth of goods pilfered by ho- tel emploves during the past year. Charging That They Had Formed without the knowledge and consent of the club-an organization within it, for “their own selfish motives,” the New Haven Political Equality elub, a suf- | 2 rage organization, has expelled twelve of its members, including. the presi- dent, Mrs. Terrence S, McDermott, and an honorary vice president, Mrs. Au- gusto Troup, one of the first suffragists Mexico and northwestern Texas & short line to the Gulf the Iialian tank steamer Margaretha. from Kustendje for Avonmouth. in the city and widow of Alexander Troup. | PENSION OF $30 FOR | Also Increases to $50 for Willimantic ‘Washington, Lean presented day the petition of sundry citizens of Connecticut protesting against the in- come ta it affects He also introduced bills granting in- crease of pensions to the following: To_Sarah of East Nor- | at the rate of $30 per month amuel Conn., at the rate of $30 per month; to Harriet 7. | widow of Elisha Tuttie, late of Co. {23rd Conn., month; Britain, widow of James Adams, late of Co. H, 44th N. Y., at the rate of $30 | per _month; | Hartford, widow of Thomas Marshall, late of Co. A, 12th Con: | of $30 per month; | of New Britain, widow of Robert Ken- yon, late of Co. C, 22nd, at the rate of $30 per month. Dills granting increase of pensions to Howard A. Carpenter, late of troop B, 12th U. to $50 per month, and to Milo B. Cook, of “Willimantic, Mass., to $50 per month. | A SPECIAL REGIME ard Austin, the negro who shot and killed_two white men and fatally FOR POPE PIUS wounded a third near Hampton, S. C., X P | Wednesday. Pontiff Is Still Under the Orders of the cause of the death of Captain Scott Rome, May 6.—The Osservatore Ro- and the men who died with him on|mane, the Vatican newspaper, pub- their way back from the south pole, ac- | lishes this evening the following offi- cording to Lieut. Gran, a member of | cial statement in reference to the the supporting party which found the/ health of the pope: | bodies. “Some newspapers have given in- | act news about the health of His Hol- iness, | sidering his recent iliness, obliges him to follow a special regime. | the pontiff has neither gone into the | Vatican gardens nor is he about to | resume his audiences of pilgrims, thus | follo? tors.” BURGLARS MAKE GOOD Get Cash and Jewelry at Homes of Albin Tempel and William Shannon. Stonington, Con: | entered the house of Albin Tempel of this borough today, getting away with 8 considerable sum’ of money and jew- elry. | Tempel was out marketing. Entrance was effected through one of the back doors. apartment, they entered the apartment of Willlam Shannon, next door, taking more money and jewelry. AVIATOR ATWOOD’S Brings Suit at Reno, Charging Bird- Reno, wood, wife of Harry N. Atwood, avia- tor, foday sued for divorce in the dis- trict court. sertion and asks for the custody of their minor child, Atwood will contest the action. ¢ New York, R. Whaley of the New York, New Haven pany and the Central New Rallroad company has been appointed | severe thunder etorm head of the engineering, construction and maintenance department in addi- tion to his duties as head, of the oper- ating department of these companies WILLIMANTIC WOMAN. and Colchester Veteran (Speeial to The Bulletin.) May 6.—Senator Me- in_the senate yester- ion of the-tariff bill as urance companies. prov life in: E. tion in Arizona. Emerson, walk, widow of George A. Emergon, Twenty-five Persons were wounded, | late ‘of the T. S. navy, to $30 per one fatall in revolver fights yester- | month: to Mary Britton of Williman- day at Syracuse, N. Y., between police- | tic, widow of Robert Britton, late of men and foreign workmen as a result | Co. L, First Conn. H. A, at the rate of a laborers and hod carriers’ strike | of $30' per month: to Nellie E. Alfred, | in progress there. of Cromwell, widow of Albert F. Al f—— fred, late of Co. D, 2nd H. A. Conn, to Julia Fields of New Haven, widow of J. Fields, late of Co. I, 2Tth Tuttle, of Woodbury, at Jane the rate of 330 per to A. Adams, of South to Ellen Marshall, of at the rate to Corrilia Kenyon, He also introduced of Colchester, S. cavalry, late of Co. F, 46th His Physicians. which, although excellent con- Therefore ing the instructions of the doc- s HAUL AT STONINGTON. May 6.—Burglars The. thieves entered while Mrs, After ransacking the Tempel WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE. man With Desertion. Nev., May 6.—Sarah J. At- Mrs. Atwood alleges de- 1t is not believed Whaley's New Assignment. May 6.—Vice President and “Hartford Rallroad - com-~ BN RAILROAD SERVICE IN NEW_ENGLAND To Be Considered by Interstate Gem= merce Commission Today. ‘Washington, May 6.} . cen, ing the operations of the grea. W England railway, system developes DY . the Intersiate Commerce col during the recent hearings by Commissioner Prouty in | Mass., will be discussed before the commission beginning tomorrow. Nearly & year ago the co instituted an investigation into rates, classifications, regulations practices of the New York, New H ven and Hartford, the Boston Maine and the Maine Central roads. Numercus complaints had given alleging that in thelr ratesan ! operations, the railroads were unrea. sonable, unjustly discriminatory an | unduly ‘preferential in their treatms |of the shipping public. The hearings were concluded 1 week in Boston. Tomorrow cof representing both the railroads an the shipping interests of New Englan will argue the questions developed the testimony. Louis D. Brandeis Boston will appear as principal coun~ sel for the shippers, while all the rafls roads will be represented by the gen= eral counsel. H ANOTHER STRIKE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN, Two Hundred Youngsters at Cam< bridge Make Demonstration. Cambridge, Mass.,, 'May 6~ Th youngest “sirike” ever held in New England took place at the Bllis gram= /mar school today when 200 children. ranging from 8 to 14 years, refused to take up their lessons, demanding re-arrangement of the school hours. Not only did the youngsters prevent. other pupils from going to their school but a procession of more than a hun- dred marched to another schoolhouse and held up 20 or 30 children who were about to enter there, Shor and cheering, the striking pupils a noiey demonstration. Police officers were necessary to subdue their ardor. The present school day consists of two sessions. The children want onby « one, and the “strike leaders” c an extra 15 minutes of attendance im making their demands. Business Man in the Tombs. New York, May 6.—Louis Markhetm, proprietor of one of the largest lace and embroidery concerns in the city, was sent to the Tombs prison today in default of $25,000 bail on indictments charging attempted grand larceny and with a fire in his establishment om . April 12, % Train Robber Captured. 3 Kansas City, Mo., May 6.—A wound= ed man arrésted in_a grading camp near Birmingham, Mo., _today identified as the train robber who Thursday night held up a Kansas Southern train and woundéd Jesse Short, a Joplin miner, from whom took '$1,000. The identification made by Short. Monument to Franklin Pierce. Concord,"N. H. May 6] Pierce, the only president of United States from New Ham seems assured at last of a statu his pative state. The senate f¢ passed a house bill providing $15,000 appropriation for the st be erected on the statehouse g1 New York Bars Pusho New York, May 6—The bo &s‘ dermen passed unanimously ordinance taking from the New York its ten 1ts passage was bitterly the peddlers. 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